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Monday, December 17, 2012

There were SO many great advent calendar ideas on Pinterest, that it was hard to decide on just one! I ended up printing this cute little Christmas tree from here, and the blank calendar from here . I just wrote in an activity for each day. I have plenty of books from teaching, so we actually read one book and do one activity each day. It's nice to have the calendar in front of me, because if I don't have all of the supplies ready for one activity, I can look at another day and do that one.

One of the first activities we did was a "paint with water" velvet picture. I got this one at Wal-Mart for just under a dollar. (It's a great idea to go right after Christmas and stock up for next year, since these items go on clearance and they sell out quickly!)

Friday, December 14, 2012

Yes, it's been a very long time. I had decided to start up with some posts again, and I found out I'd reached my limit for photos on blogger...so I got that figured out and I'm back (at least for now)

Little Christmas treats!

I worked with A and we made cards for her teachers. She's in gymnastics, dance, and has Wednesday night church classes. I cut some pieces of watercolor paper and let her dip mini cookie cutters into tempera paint and just stamp them all over the paper. I later folded them into mini cards and wrote a note inside.

After making the cards, she put together little treat bags. Each bag had mini candy canes, white chocolate peppermint kisses and regular chocolate kisses. A candy cane was added at the end. We used these awesome candy cane tags from
here and A wrote her name on the back.

She really had so much fun assembling these and handing them out. Such an easy little gift for a little one to give!